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Wednesday writing prompt

Crowdeddarkness — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:04:00 +0000

Hello everybody!

Today I have a first line for you to complete and then follow on from. End the sentence however you want, and feel free as ever to change/add/remove words as you see fit.

“I have always been afraid of ______ ”

- crowdeddarkness

Flash Fiction

Amber — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:16:56 +0000

Flash fiction is a short story told in as few words as possible. It can vary from 6 words to a 1000 depending on the publication.

Take the following words to write a story (with beginning, middle and end) that is 850 words or less.

Swede
conserve
box
five

Good luck!
~Amber

It’s Summer, What Could Go Wrong?

Amber — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:52:56 +0000

It’s officially summer. Kids are out of school and on the loose. Imagine a beautiful day. Children and adults have money to spend on their favorite dessert truck. What could go wrong?

Ice cream truck, cupcake truck, ice cream cart… you name it. Just write about the disaster that takes place.

Have fun,
Amber

Not What It Seems

Amber — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:36:19 +0000

What if the Easter Bunny was really a Werewolf? How would that change the holiday?

*Prompt from WritingPerc 2008 Newsletter

Birthday

Rhonda — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:46:40 +0000

Write a story that includes a birthday party. How old are the characters? How do they celebrate? What is the mood? The possibilities here are nearly endless…

Story Starter from The First Line

Amber — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:52:06 +0000

I’m quite late in posting Monday’s exercise although I had it in my To Do list. A To Do list doesn’t help much if you ignore it to do other things (like reading) that aren’t on the list.

Going with the theme last week of Story Starter, here’s one for you from The First Line. If you like what you write, why not send it in to them? Their deadline is May 1st, 2010. You can’t change the line in any way.

Paul and Miriam Kaufman met the old-fashioned way.

(This is Amber posting – the Poise and Pen site cross-posts under Rhonda’s ID.)

Story Starter

Rhonda — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:33:54 +0000

You may be wondering why I’m putting up an exercise on Tuesday instead of Monday. Well, I was waiting to see if Amber put one up first because I couldn’t remember if I was even Mondays or odd. Turns out, I must be odd — I bet you all knew that already

This week start a story with the following line:

She missed her train

What do you guys think? Should we make this one into a contest? Let me know, if there is enough interest I’ll round up prizes and set some simple rules